Water management 1300-WGWP-GES
The practical classes are aimed at making the students acquainted with issues related with: water regimes in urbanized catchments, requirements and methods linked with regulation of water regimes, methods used in estimating groundwater resources, determining retention changes in catchments, modelling of water regimes in urbanized and agricultural catchments, practical aspects of water management.
The practical classes are focused on:
- Discussing the basic issues in water management;
- Recognition of procedures, legal and administrative measures in water management, methods used in calculating the volume of disposable resources of groundwater;
- Recognition of the state of research on water management, volume of available and disposable resources in Poland and Europe;
- Performing calculations of the volume of available and disposable resources;
- Analysis of legal regulations on the management of water resources;
- Indicating the possible occurrences of hydrological and hydrogeological droughts, and flooding hazards;
- Recognition of methods used in estimating the water-economical balance in catchments.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
On completing the course, the student:
- Has knowledge on the basic issues of water management;
- Has widened and deepened knowledge on the current issues and development trends in water management;
- Is capable of estimating the volume of renewable and disposable resources in a balance and administrative unit;
- Is capable of indicating the most important elements of the water-economical balance;
- Knows the most important legal regulations linked with water management;
- Can define hydrological and hydrogeological droughts, and flooding hazard and factors related with these issues;
- Is capable of using databases, documentation, and apply computer methods and software in water management analysis and elaborations;
- Has a critical approach to the assessment of the acquired knowledge and understands the significance of knowledge in solving cognitive and practical problems in water management.
Assessment criteria
Lecture, discussion, solving problems, individual student projects, consultations, practical classes.
Three justified absences are allowed.
Correct execution of projects and presentations assessed on points (scale: 0-5 points for a single project/presentation), passing a study up from 1 point). Written exam from the whole material assessed on points. Subject credited after obtaining more than 50% of the sum of points from the elaborations and written work.
Correction of writing exam needed in the case of failure to obtain the required sum of points in the first term.
Practical placement
Not applicable
Additional information
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